EETI is excited to welcome Dr. James Warnock as its new interim director! Dr. Warnock will be filling the role formerly held by Dr. Joachim Walther, who left UGA in May 2022 along with Dr. Nicola Sochacka to pursue work in Dr. Sochacka’s home country of Australia. Dr. Warnock is the current school chair of [Read More]
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04/22/2022
ENED 7010 Alumni Win UGA’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards
Two College of Engineering graduate students, Manjyot Chug (middle-right) and Baviththira Suganthan (middle-left) have won one of the University of Georgia’s most prestigious teaching awards for graduate students, the 2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Both students took EETI’s ENED 7010 course (Preparing to Be an Effective Engineering Educator) with Dr. John Morelock in Fall 2021 [Read More]
04/15/2022
Dr. Cheryl Gomillion’s Educational Research Featured in UGA Research Newsletter
EETI affiliate faculty member Dr. Cheryl Gomillion was recently featured in an article for the UGA Research Newsletter. In addition to highlighting her biomedical research, the article features her educational research work in the area of diversity and inclusion, supported by EETI. Check out the article here: https://research.uga.edu/news/cheryl-gomillion-growing-a-diverse-culture/
04/01/2022
UGA NSBE takes Anaheim
UGA’s College of Engineering has its first table at the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) 48th Annual Convention hosted in Anaheim, CA.
12/01/2021
Webinar on ProQual approach for the AERA/ ICPSR PEERS Data hub
This workshop is for STEM practitioners across formal and informal K-to-gray settings who want to learn qualitative research methods to broaden their educational change and innovation skillset. The workshop is based on the ProQual Institute for Research Methods that aims to build capacity, confidence, and community in STEM education research. The faculty will introduce a [Read More]
11/18/2021
Dr. John Morelock presents on models of capacity building with Dr. Amy Chan-Hilton
In November 2021, Drs. John Morelock (University of Georgia) and Amy Chan-Hilton (Southern Indiana University) presented on two complementary models of capacity building in STEM higher education during the AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education 2021 Virtual Conference. Session Title: Elevating Capacity Building Across Multiple Dimensions to Strengthen Transformation Outcomes Session Description: This Ideation/Innovation session presents [Read More]
09/15/2021
Dr. John Morelock Featured on “Reflective Teaching in a Digital Age” Podcast
Dr. Morelock was featured as a guest speaker on the May 24, 2021 episode of the podcast “Reflective Teaching in a Digital Age,” hosted by Drs. Natasha Perova-Mello and Nicole Pitterson. In this episode, Dr. Morelock discusses the real-time data collected by EETI to understand student, staff, and faculty experiences during the early months of [Read More]
05/17/2021
EETI undergraduate researchers publish journal article as lead authors
We would like to congratulate undergraduate researchers Hindo Kamanda and Davis Wilson on the publication of their journal article, The Role of Expectations in the Educational Experience and Professional Socialization of Engineering Students in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice (JHETP) as lead authors in collaboration with Dr. Joachim Walther. Hindo Kamanda is the [Read More]
05/12/2021
Dr. Sochacka discusses empathy work in SEFI seminar on Emotions and Ethics in Engineering Education
Dr. Sochacka was one of three presenters to discuss connections between ethics and emotions in engineering education in an online seminar organized by the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Building on George D. Catalano’s morally deep approach to engineering ethics and her and her colleagues’ own work on empathy in engineering, Dr. Sochacka described [Read More]
04/29/2021
Dr. Sochacka discusses educating empathic engineers at the Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville
Dr. Sochacka was invited to discuss opportunities and challenges associated with teaching empathic engineers to faculty members at the Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville (SIUE). She presented to SIUE’s STEM Center and College of Engineering. In her presentation, Dr. Sochacka described key lessons she has learned over the past 8-years of studying empathy in engineering. [Read More]